We just finished a debate on low fertility explaining why we must not fear falling birthrates, and we won by an overwhelming majority of votes! #ICFP2025

Excited to have our ED, Nandita Bajaj, invited to the #ICFP2025 in Bogotá, to help debunk the fears around declining fertility rates. We will be participating in a dynamic debate where we will shine a light on why this low fertility trend is a triumph for women's rights and for ecological balance.

A clear and insightful piece from @popnbalance.bsky.social. Dear Elon and friends, this one's for you. "While human overpopulation is not the only factor driving ecological overshoot, it is the most neglected one, and the factor that intensifies every crisis confronting us."

We are in #Colombia attending the #ICFP2025, where we will shine a light on the missing connections between pronatalism, #population, and #overshoot. We will participate in a dynamic debate to explore the implications of declining fertility rates over the coming decades. tinyurl.com/3k57f7e6

The one-child family is becoming the fastest-growing family size in many countries. @susannewmanphd.bsky.social, author of Just One, shares the research challenging myths that only children are lonely, selfish, or spoiled. Listen to this episode 👉🏼 www.populationbalance.org/podcast/susa...

Distraught by her infertility diagnosis, Pamela pursued the IVF pathway. It left her traumatized. Determined to expose the exploitative practices of the fertility industry, she founded the “silent sorority” community. Listen to her story www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

What role has the idea of progress played in building civilization and its gifts, as well as dispossessing, enslaving, or even eradicating billions of people and animals over the last 5,000 years? This interview with @popnbalance.bsky.social gives a good overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2X...

A global war against animals is driven by capitalist exploitation and profit. Dinesh Wadiwel,author of Animals and Capital and The War Against Animals, shows how capitalism treats animals as commodities, raw materials, and self-reproducing labor. Listen here www.populationbalance.org/podcast/dine...

Mandy entered an arranged marriage where her decision to remain childfree was first accepted but later challenged. Today, Mandy lives happily childfree, courageously embracing a life true to her authentic self. www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall, a tireless advocate for people, animals and the planet. An outspoken advocate for a smaller and thriving human population that is in balance with all life on Earth, Dr. Goodall leaves behind an immeasurable legacy of compassion and service.

In the midst of so many challenges, is pushing women to produce more children really our top priority? How about we simply stop exploiting women no matter the circumstances? Thanks to Riley Fanning of the @newyorker.com for capturing so perfectly the irony of our current media and political focus.

Bound by the same upbringing, Rebecca remained very close to her sister. Awakening to feminism and the planetary crisis together, they both decided to not have children. Today, Rebecca and her sister live together as each other's chosen life partners www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

Shrishtee Bajpai, from Global Tapestry of Alternatives,reveals how local struggles for self-determination connect across cultures and what is being done to weave a 'pluriverse' of possibilities rooted in social and ecological justice www.populationbalance.org/podcast/shri...

Raised in a conservative Indian family, Sneha knew from an early age that she didn't want to have a biological child. She rejected the patriarchal expectations of procreation and marriage and embraced her own path. Listen to her story www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

We face swift judgement if we decide not to have children, even though this decision is the most consequential of our lives. More and more people are rejecting these judgments and expectations to follow their true dreams.

Trump’s cuts mean that every week nearly one million women and girls worldwide will be denied contraceptive care, potentially costing them their lives. Read more 🔗 www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

A thought-provoking personal perspective from @popnbalance.bsky.social. "While human overpopulation is not the only factor driving ecological overshoot, it is the most neglected one, and the factor that intensifies every crisis confronting us."

Birthrates are falling across the world. This is not cause for alarm, but should be celebrated as a natural consequence of women having reproductive choice. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

B (who wants to remain anonymous) reveals why societal collapse — in the form of a stair-step decline with sharp drops — is inevitable, and how to strategically leverage our influence to minimize suffering. www.populationbalance.org/podcast/the-...

Having children should always be a carefully considered decision, and a possible life path that is one option among many. Read more www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

International climate reparations are a step in the direction of climate justice. But they do not address the underlying driver of vast international, intergenerational and interspecies injustice: ecological overshoot. Read more 🔗 www.ipsnews.net/2025/08/clim...

Bribes won't convince women to have babies they don’t want, and coercive laws like abortion bans are triggering a form of protest from women who refuse to have babies in such an environment. 🔗 worldcrunch.com/culture-soci...

Delighted to share this good discussion between friends Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on population angst/ #coercivepronatalism stoked by #farright patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4 @endovershoot.bsky.social 👏

The development of contraceptive technologies has been absolutely central to the empowerment and liberation of women from the burdens of unwanted pregnancy and motherhood. But IUDs and hormonal birth control also have significant side effects for many women.

This childfree woman faced backlash at work simply for talking about her tubal ligation. Yet, as she notes, "everyone else talks about pregnancy, daycare, baby poop, and IVF constantly." www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...

One of these viewpoints by the ED of @popnbalance.bsky.social, Nadiata Bajaj, cuts to the core of population denialism: #pronatalism. That is what my book, #TheBabyMatrix is all about. amzn.to/4km3GbB

🌱 Population Balance (@popnbalance.bsky.social) is one of the few voices saying it plainly: a smaller human footprint is the only path to lasting ecological balance. #Pronatalism #EcologicalJustice #Childfree Thank you for hosting Joe's story. Hear it below:

Excellent topic on @popnbalance.bsky.social 's latest podcast: www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu... #overshoot #overpopulation

Delighted to share this good discussion between my friends/ colleagues Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on how population angst/ #coercivepronatalism are stoked by far-right patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth. youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4?...

#EarthOvershootDay Today humanity has used everything Earth can regenerate for the entire year.What we spend is not borrowed from the future,there is no banking system that lends us "resources" and to which we pay interest.What we degrade is lost in our time scale. www.instagram.com/p/DMfpSVOMH_...

"Kids deserve to be wanted, not brought into the world because parents feel like having kids is something they're supposed to do.” www.newsweek.com/couple-kids-...

#Pronatalism has been the realm of right-wing, anti-choice ideologies. But now, with declining fertility rates, so-called “progressives” are jumping on the pronatalist bandwagon. Progressivism is about expanding rights, not about pressuring women to have more babies 🔗 msmagazine.com/2025/07/18/p...

Once women are able to choose the number and timing of their births, they are never going back. Read more 🔗 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pronatalist pressures to have children are so powerful and everpresent, many of us cannot even tell what our true reproductive desires are. And if we can, those pressures cause us to second guess ourselves if we do not conform to society’s expectations.

A chance conversation blew open the door regarding societal expectations around relationships,sex, and conventional measures of success. #Childfree, single, and celibate, Pip lives an independent, authentic, and joyful life with her family of two rescue dogs www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

Starting at about 1:10 in, ED of @popnbalance.bsky.social Nandita Bajaj speaks to the roots of #pronatalism 5000 years ago and since. Yes, it has been with us for that long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBdJ... To dive into pronatalism and more, see my book, #TheBabyMatrix amzn.to/4nKeGm1

An article by our friend and advisor Eileen Crist. In order to justify the annihilation of animals and nature, we make ourselves into gods and them into nothing. Read more 🔗 blog.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/07/11/r...

Today marks #WorldPopulationDay, a day that reminds us of the urgent need to scale back the devastating impact of our growing numbers on the planet. We are committed to reclaiming the population discussion as central to feminism, human rights, animal protection, and ecology.

We believe that #AI is energy-intensive, ecologically destructive, anthropocentric in purpose, represents a false solution to ecological problems, and causes alienation in human-nature relationships. That's why we're now using #NotbyAI at #EarthTongues. Not by AI website: notbyai.fyi

Wrote about why panic over human birth rates falling is not just delusional but evil www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-a...

I had a great conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Alan Weisman on the OVERSHOOT podcast about why fixation on growth and increasing birthrates is fundamentally authoritarian and anti-life (and also about conviviality, solidarity, and more). Have a listen! www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...

I listened to this excellent podcast yesterday. It explains why Elon Musk and others are in a dither about fertility rates, despite the fact that the human population will climb another 2 billion in the next few decades.

We are in a pronatalist dystopia: paying girls to have babies when they are barely adults themselves.

The fertility panic is an elite fixation that is rooted in a human supremacist worldview and a deep fear of slowing growth. In this episode of OVERSHOOT, Samuel Miller exposes how our parasitic relationship with Earth lies at the core of ecological overshoot www.populationbalance.org/podcast/samu...

All over the world, more and more people are making the choice to be #childfree. Even in deeply patriarchal and pronatalist societies like Nigeria, support for this choice is growing. Read more 👉🏽 www.zikoko.com/her/nigerian...

Our growth-oriented economic system is one source of the constant pressure so many of us feel to have kids. Our guest Paddy refused to be a part of that, choosing instead to give himself and his partner the gift of a vasectomy

Joe, alongside his partner, has built a purposeful #childfree life rooted in love for nonhumans — founding and managing @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social and working to protect biodiversity, specifically insects, in his local habitat. Listen to Joe's story! www.populationbalance.org/beyond-prona...

People have fewer children wherever they have the choice to do so. Pressuring them to do otherwise is harmful to women, children, and the natural world. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pronatalism doesn't care about children. It doesn't care about life. It only cares about money, profit, and race. www.science.org/content/arti...